One Utah

Men die, but ideas live forever. It sounds nice, anyway and even provides a good storyline for movies like “V for Vendetta”, but centuries ago, pharos histories were removed from stone by vindictive or insecure proprietors of power. An ancient “Freedom of Information Act” would have preserved a much richer understanding of history then we [...]

Some basics:  Some individual parents, a Chrisitian indoctrination center school and the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) filed a lawsuit alleging that the University of California was discriminating against them; UC has said that some of the courses these groups teach do not meet their requirements.  Among those courses are courses on creationism pretending [...]

I’ve added some text to expand on some ideas.  I’ve noted them.
The brouhaha in American Fork holds a morbid fascination for me. The American Fork PTSA invited a group to address their meeting and talk about the dangers of pornography. What they discovered they were going to get was a denunciation of glbt persons dressed [...]

I’m having an extremely difficult time posting today. I just can’t seem to think clearly. I don’t know what’s up with that.
I’m avoiding the gym tonight. I know it’s lame excuse but it’s always so crowded on Mondays it’s almost not worth going. I know it’s a lame excuse.
Anyway, [...]

I thought it was odd that Ken B posted a comment about global warming in response to my post about the systemic dishonesty of creationists. I wonder if maybe there are connections between the dishonest means and methods of creationists and those who deny global warming. I haven’t really looked much at the methods used [...]

I’m going to be laughing about this for decades. In fact, I may be amused about this the rest of my life and if I’m reincarnated, I may be born amused about it in my next life.
The story from PZ Myers (h/t Feministe).
I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, [...]

Of course that’s the headline many of us disenfranchised citizens would have liked to have seen after Democrats finally stood up to Bush and the telecommunication giants, AT & T and Verizon for ignoring the FISA law and illegally wiretapping American citizens. I wouldn’t count on any present day media outlet portraying the Democrats [...]

I’ve been trying to write an appropriately sarcastic and ironic response to our state legislators opposition to the IB program. It’s almost impossible to satire someone who does not know the difference between “socialization” and “socialism.” It’s equally difficult deploying sarcasm in response to someone who thinks the any positive mention of the [...]

I haven’t really commented much on this year’s legislative session for one reason - the news I’ve seen hasn’t really painted a picture of the session. Aside from anything having to do with immigration (i.e. brown people) the session seems to have been actually kind of boring. Yesterday, I got to spend some [...]

I saw this reported on KSL and decided I had misunderstood. Apparently not. Tragically not. From the D-News, I see that a group of students from BYU and UVSC are making some downright pathetic demands of Gold’s gym.
They are demanding that the gyms get rid of R-rated or sexually explicit PG-13 movies [...]

So last night I’m watching CNN. They were running a story on the Republican primary in South Carolina and the importance of conservative evangelicals in the race. Apparently South Carolina has the highest concentration of conservative evangelicals in the country. Also, apparently, since 1980 no Republican candidate has won the nomination without [...]

So, opposition to the Blue Boutique’s new location is rapidly becoming the gift the just keeps giving - unfortunately they’re giving to comics, cynics and satirists.
Today’s Trib has a modern classic letter to the editor by Lynn F. Price of Salt Lake City:
. . . the concern is not just that teenagers will access the “adult” [...]